by Equip the Nations | Feb 13, 2021 | Church Planting - Mark Antony, Missionaries
Church Planting & Mercy Ministry Home Page Mark and Hepsibah Village Ministry Greetings from India. We believe God is calling us to reach our district consisting of 1,486 farming villages and a population of over 400,000 people. Ninety percent of our villages do not have a church. Only 2 percent of the population is Christian. Presently, we are equipping and supporting pastors and their lay leaders in our area to plant more churches. We are praying to expand our ministry in 2021 to plant new churches throughout our district. We plow the hard rocky soil in our area with good works in Christ’s name. We have ministries like sewing and tailoring schools for mothers who need extra income. We offer free Day Care centers so the moms can work. We have after school tuition classes for the poor school-aged children who are not currently enrolled in school. We also have literacy training. We work to help the needy start small businesses. For ones who are hurting, we offer medical care, a counseling center, and help feed the orphans and widows. Our social work has opened to the door for evangelism, Bible distribution, home care groups, and discipleship training of lay leaders and church believers. During the Covid lockdown, we were able to help 95 pastors by giving about half of them enough food to help the poor in their churches. Additionally, we gave over 100,000 drinks, 25,000 food packages, 20,000 immunity boosters, 4935 kg tons of rice with all the spices and cooking oil they needed to the homeless and migrant workers. We helped the local police force by...
by Equip the Nations | Feb 9, 2021 | Chuch Planting - Samuel Paul, Missionaries
CHURCH PLANTING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Samuel Paul India Greeting in the Sweet Name our Lord Jesus Christ, By the Grace of God we are fine and Ministry also fine. It is my pleasure to share with you the burden and what the Lord is doing through us. Church ministry - We are doing church ministry in a highly sensitive area. It is full of Hindu fanatic people who belong to a particular high caste. Even from the beginning, we have faced many persecutions. By the grace of God, about 70 people are coming to church regularly. Even in spite of the Covid lockdown, we were able to baptize three Hindu people. A Hindu family struggling with the feeling of demonic oppression in their house invited us to pray for them. We prayed and shared the power of Jesus Christ. After our prayers, Vas*** accepted Jesus Christ and promised to come to church from next week. Please pray for his growth and maturity in Christ. Bible classes - We are making disciples through the teaching of the Bible chronologically by using the “Lamb of God.” Many people are being blessed and are experiencing life changes after participating in this Bible study. Through this study, many people have become full-time pastors and have started new churches in new and unreached areas. At present, we are meeting in two different locations. Leprosy Ministry : We have a heavy burden for and always consider the people who have leprosy. These people have been rejected from their own family. Some are living on the street. Some live in a leprosy colony. We go to...
by Equip the Nations | Feb 9, 2021 | Baby Girl Rescue, Missionaries
Baby Girl Home - Home Page Russal, Kamari, and Staff South India The Hindu government still has our girls we saved from infanticide. The Covid19 lockdown brought our fight in the high court to a complete halt. As you can read throughout our other blog posts, people in our State wanted one child. The Eastern slogan: “We two, but we are one.” This means the government only wanted us to have one child. Because of customs in India, girls are very expensive to care for and to raise, so everyone wants a boy. In villages, some people were killing their infants when they discovered they had a girl. We worked in these villages to literally rescue our girls from death. The parents of these girls didn’t want to get caught by the police so most of the details on the paperwork is incorrect. Now, we are in a big battle to make our government return our girls to us. We have made some headway, but it is an ongoing battle we can never give up. Our cost to keep the house for the girls so we can maintain our non-government status is very high. Now, the court is prohibiting us from discussing the Baby Girls Home situation with others. Please email tommy@equipthenations.org for our current information. This past month we have been busy doing personal evangelism. A new resource we have is a book written by a Hindu priest who accepted Christ. He is now in ministry here locally. His testimony is exciting and thousands of people have come to Christ after they have read his book. I met...
by Equip the Nations | Feb 9, 2021 | Church Planting John Solomon, Missionaries
John Solomon & Family - Home Page Church Planting & Ministering to the Poor Undisclosed location Area of Malaysia Greetings from Malaysia. God is calling us to reach the rejected Tamil speaking Hindu people living in object poverty and the unreached and unengaged group of Tamil Muslims with the love of our Savior Jesus. Our island has 35,000 Malaysian Indian Hindus with a 0.01% Christian population and 285,000 Unreached and Unengaged People Group (UUPG) of Indian Muslims. Because of the Muslim persecution, the Tamil Muslims are without a Christian witness. Our goal in 2021 is to plant the first church for the Tamil Muslims. Because of the persecution, this is an overwhelming goal. We are going to train leaders to do good works, manage and conduct prayer stations, run Bible distribution events, and direct and perform evangelism efforts among the Muslims. When the ground is tilled and ready for seed, we will be to present “The Straight Path” using select biblical references in the Quran as we teach our chronological Bible lessons With the Tamil Hindus, we let our Christian light shine by living the Letter of James to the poor, the widows, and the orphans. We are constantly feeding the homeless. We would like to one day build a refuge home for them. We are helping the orphans attend school by buying uniforms and school materials. If they are not educated, they have no hope of surviving here. Our outreach to the Tamil homeless Hindus is never ending. We supply food, like rice, cooking oil and doll on an ongoing basis. The lack of economic opportunities have created...
by Equip the Nations | Feb 6, 2021 | Missionaries, School of Evangelism - Muthu & Kavitha
School of Evangelism and Pioneering Muthu, Kavitha, and Family – Home Page YWAM, South India Thank you all for your prayers and sacrificial giving! With your help, we were able to bless over 510,000 visually challenged, homeless, transgender, tribal, slum dwellers, widows, migrant workers, orphans, HIV/Aids patients, and many others with the mercy and kindness of Christ. See the Covid-19 Relief Work Report located below for all the details. The Lord has blessed us with a new ambulance so we can transport patients. It has been such a blessing as we have transported over 300 people so far. We had a prayerful dedication service for our ambulance service on January 10. Our wound care ministry among the homeless is going well and it always opens the hearts of the people. Many are helping many find hope and healing through mercy and the Gospel. Our food distribution happens in so many different areas. We were able to give groceries to some families who literally stay on the road near the cancer hospital as they are undergoing cancer treatments. We continue to provide lunch to the homeless people. We have been able to help many families start small businesses. Overall, we have helped 65 businesses start. Praise the Lord! The type of businesses range from people working with pigs, goats, cows, and others are working in food businesses. This enables the families to generate income during these difficult economic times. We are especially happy that we were able to open a small restaurant to generate jobs and income for kingdom work. Thus far we have helped over 40 families start new businesses....
by Equip the Nations | Feb 5, 2021 | Missionaries, Street-Kids-Ministry
Rescue and Restore Ministry Freddy & Daisy, India - HOME PAGE Restoration House, Evangelism, Church Planting, Street Ministry, Slum Ministries The Corona virus has kept us in various stages of lockdown during the past year. We are doing well by the grace of God. Thank you for keeping us in your prayers. During this challenging time we have been able to bless the people who live on the street, slums, and the gypsies. We were able to distribute needed food and rice with the help of some wonderful local volunteers. We are praying to be able to start a day care program among the gypsy children. The children do not go to school because of the way they look. Pu*** is a young woman who is in the twelfth grade. She lives in the slums with her family. She recently had a fever and had not felt well for several days. We were able to get her to the hospital for treatment. Her dream is to become a nurse and help bring her family out of the slums. We are eager to help her with her dreams. As many of you know, we have been working with Street Kids who primarily live at the train station for many years. A year ago, God provided us with a parcel of land and He has enabled us to build a Rescue & Restore Home for our precious street children. God really blessed us and gave us strength to trust Him for each and everything. We have almost finished the first building. In December 2020, we did a land breaking for our...
